Ken Rimple

TechCast Special Event – Announcing the 2013 Philly Enterprise Hackathon Contest

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PHILLY ENTERPRISE HACKATHON! APRIL 2-19, 2013! (got your attention?) This podcast episode is an interview with three leaders of the 2013 Philadelphia Enterprise Hack-a-thon contest, which is being launched at Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise on April 2-3, 2013. The interviewees are: Mike Schellhase – Director of Field Applications – Bentley Systems Phil Moyer … Read More

Training Courses on Tap for Spring 2013

It’s that time again. Flowers are sprouting, pollen is flowing, and, lo and behold, Chariot is running more training… We have some exciting additions to our courses this quarter, including a guest course by Neosoft, our usual Spring training courses, a Groovy and Grails offering, and more. The Lineup March 26-28 – Comprehensive Maven 3 … Read More

Recap – Chariot Day 2013 – Our internal conference…

One thing Chariot people love to do is learn new technologies and techniques. Being consultants constantly challenged in the field, keeping our blades sharp is key to doing battle. Every year or so we get together and run our own internal conference to see what each of our current passions are. We call it Chariot … Read More

TechCast #76 – AngularJS with authors Lukas Ruebbelke and Brian Ford

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Lukas Ruebbelke and Brian Ford, both speaking at Philly Emerging Tech this April, are co-authors of the forthcoming Manning book, AngularJS in Action. They are currently preparing for their first Manning Early Access release, or MEAP. When Brian was working at Google as an intern, he was exposed to the Angular framework and learned quite … Read More

Conference Session #4 – Joel Confino on Gaining Competitive Advantage with CI

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Joel Confino is a long-time consultant at Chariot Solutions. He has spent the last four years working with a large enterprise, here named ABC Corporation, rolling out a new development platform and build process. Joel was one of two speakers at our event, which also included Sonatype’s Jason Van Zyl. Joel’s focus was building in … Read More

A Spring summary: The Spring framework is still relevant

This article by Ken Rimple is from a post on Serverside.com A Spring Summary: The Spring Framework is Still Relevant With the advent of the simpler versions of Java EE comes a chorus of Java EE aficionados calling for developers to jettison proprietary application frameworks and embrace the core. Spring is one framework targeted for … Read More

Science of Big Data 2012 – Stuart Sierra – Breaking Down Big Data with Datomic

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Every database technology is a product of its time, optimized for a particular hardware profile. Today, “Big Data” is often synonymous with the Map/Reduce architecture and Hadoop but, as technology continues to evolve, cost/performance tradeoffs are changing. This talk will highlight some recent trends in data storage technology and distributed systems, with a focus on … Read More

Science of Big Data 2012 – Tom Santero – Adventures with Eventual Consistency

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Tom Santero is a Technical Evangelist for Basho, the creators of Riak, a NoSQL database engine. His talk focuses on the concerns involved in keeping a large dataset up to date, mixing concurrency with consistency concerns. He reviews a number of techniques used by various types of software, including the Riak database.

Science of Big Data 2012 – Andrew Oswald / Josh Angotti – Hadoop at Comcast – a Case Study

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Chariot Solutions has been working with Comcast to enable better understanding of selections their cable subscribers make in their onscreen menus. Andrew Oswald, a Hadoop and data analysis expert at Chariot, led a team of developers in implementing a data analysis engine using the Apache Hadoop Map/Reduce engine. Andrew discusses how the solution helped their … Read More